/u/sdric's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're a shapeshifting alien trying to find its way home, but bound by a codex to only speed up technological advance step by step. Your past personas include Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. After you faked your last death it's time for a new persona to rise.
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[WP] There's a demon and an angel sitting on your shoulder. Literally. You're a giant, chieftain of your tribe - both want you to join their side in the skirmish for the control over the gates of hell.
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[WP] Your immune system is special - you can create antibodies for each disease, even those deemed incurable. In an attempt to advance science you're trying to catch all illness you can. Some prove more difficult to get than others.
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[WP] 2543 AD. You're a cop who has been chasing a gruesome mass murderer for ages, never to be caught. You decide to time travel and kill him before he can do any harm. As you get back to your time you're a wanted murderer now.
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[WP] A lot of well known heroes pass by your tavern everyday and each day stuff goes missing. Cups, food, even spoons and useless trinkets. Things are getting out of hand, literally. Just because they're "heroes" doesn't mean it's okay for them to ruin your life. One day you decide to take action...
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[WP] You're working at the guild counter, but secretly you also have a deal with the dark lord: You sent adventurers on quests they're not qualified to finish...
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[WP] You're the God of harvest, obsequious to bring good fortune upon your followers. Sadly, you are a minor God - and the Gods of whether and seasons have their own concerns. As you see your followers starving due to yet another drought, you set your goal to become a major God.
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[WP] Neither did Atlantis sink, nor did it go to space: It was a city full of philosophers invited into the realm of Gods. Now, nearly 11500 years later they finished their dispute - and both reappear.
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[WP] A new virus spreads, our bodies can cope with it on their own - but at a price: In the process they mutate. People with four arms are born, people with two livers, or even two hearts. The mutation is rapid, it's painful - but it might just be the next step in evolution.
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